Mark Harmon played the popular TV investigator in the US thriller Navy CIS Leroy Jethro Gibbs. This is a serial fact as irrefutable as gravity or other constants of our reality. But his long -standing figure would have received a completely different name for a hair.
Ncis star Mark Harmon fought for the name Leroy Jethro Gibbs
In the script for the NCIS series pilot, the name Gibbs was already read, Mark Harmon recalled in an interview with Entertainment Tonight in November 2023 (via slash film). But then everything should come differently:
I read from Leroy Jethro Gibbs and I said: Wow, I like the name. For a short time when I decided that I like the idea and the project, the name was changed. Suddenly it was Bob Johnson or so. Then I just said: ‘What? No, no, no, it has to be Leroy Jethro Gibbs. ‘
Surprisingly, it was not the broadcaster CBS or some producer who wanted to change the iconic name, but one of the series creators – Donald P. Bellisario or Don McGill. Harmon on:
The series creator said: ‘You can’t play a guy who is called Leroy Jethro Gibbs.’ And I like that: “Why not? ‘ Then it was changed and I was happy about it.
Harmon played Ncis Special Agent Gibbs 19 seasons long And then returned as a narrator for the current Prequel-Spin-Off NCIS: Origins, in which Austin Stowell represents the younger version of the investigator.
Where can you follow the Gibbs series NCIS: Origins?
The new NCIS series: Origins started on US television in October 2024, but has not yet made it to Germany. For this, you can now see several NCIS formats for free at the local streamer Joyn, where in addition to the long-term original, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans us Ncis: Hawai’i.
As soon as NCIS: Origins receives a German start date including a serial home, we naturally raise the alarm.